Withstanding the Dream Argument

Dark ages of the world can't
account for their superstitions. 
What demonic nightmares they entertained 
surely found some purchase and 
root in the structure and bones 
of the commonplace. 

Mischievous by-products defiled the flag
of good sense. While the lie was severed 
from the equation, the doubt lingered 
to reinvestigate the normal, the established, 
the unspurious. 

And those who have and should 
know better feebly surrender to 

hallucinations that are in fact 

quite real. 

But then the gravity of permanence 

has pages and blessings, too. And 

with keen, careful fingers every 

slur and mispronunciation should 

be heard for what they communicate. 

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